Jessica Huseman for VoteBeat:
We have survived another round of elections, everyone. Congratulations. But a bigger congratulations goes to election administrators in Texas and Georgia, who pulled off successful elections last week after both states passed winding and… Continue reading
At Politico, in a story titled Why Texans Can’t Get the Gun Laws They Really Want, Joshua Blank reports on polling data that appears to show that Texans favor stricter gun policies than those the legislature has recently enacted.… Continue reading
There will be occasion to write much more about what when wrong, and why, with the effort at redistricting reform in Ohio for this decennial cycle. But all of us who work in the field of election law should take… Continue reading
I’ve posted this new essay, which is coming out in the California Law Review, on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
Democracies throughout the West are unable to marshal wide-enough support to deliver effective government. The communications revolution is one reason… Continue reading
NCC “We the People” Podcast:
There’s a lot happening in the world of election law. From the Supreme Court’s opinion last week in FEC v. Ted Cruz, to a redistricting case in Alabama, to a North Carolina case dealing with… Continue reading
From Quartz:
A new report by Canadian national intelligence experts says that country faces new threats from a once unlikely source: the United States.
The paper, published by a task force that includes two former directors of the Canadian Security… Continue reading
AJC:
Federal investigators have interviewed several Georgia Republicans who refused to join a phony slate of GOP electors to help Donald Trump’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.The interviews, first reported by CNN, involved at least… Continue reading
AJC:
The Fulton County District Attorney’s wide-ranging criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election is heating up, weeks after the seating of a special purpose grand jury with subpoena power.Jurors are soon slated to hear testimony from… Continue reading
I’ve written this essay for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. It starts and ends with Odysseus and the song of the sirens. In the middle is an analysis of why Congress should constrain itself to accepting whatever results the… Continue reading
Texas Tribune:
A disciplinary committee for the State Bar of Texas on Wednesday filed a professional misconduct lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections in four battleground… Continue reading
Zach Montellaro for Politico:
As former President Donald Trump was trying to end Brad Raffensperger’s political career, connecting him to conspiracy theories befitting an outlandish spy thriller, the Georgia secretary of state took heart in a different type of… Continue reading
I wanted to flag this valuable resource that Jon Eguia has just made public. It calculates the expected partisan bias of each congressional map, and of the U.S. House as a whole, using a range of common metrics. It also… Continue reading